OK! Thank you for the explanations. But raising this case, what is the
parameter to be controlled? And compared to the controls I mentioned
above which
of the two actually fit the occupation of RAM ?
2011/4/8 Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com>

> Fabio DellaCorte put forth on 4/8/2011 12:13 PM:
> > root@debian-cq2:/etc/pandora# free -m
> >              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> > Mem:          8006        790       7215          0        210        208
> > -/+ buffers/cache:        371       7634
> > Swap:        22883          2      22881
>
> You have 7GB+ free out of 8GB.  And you're concerned with memory usage?
>  LOL
>
> Why do you have 20GB of swap?  Given your memory usage, assuming the
> above is "typical", and the fact you have 8GB RAM, I'm going to guess
> you could likely get by with no swap device at all.
>
> You have nothing to worry about.  Unless of course this is an "idle"
> state, and you run some gargantuan simulation app that eats all 8GB when
> launched.  I doubt that's the case, as you'd not be asking this question
> if you used such an app.
>
> >From what you've provided, you don't need to worry about memory.
>
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> Stan
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